Supposing Disney releases the Star Wars Holiday Special on disc

Would you like if they offered 2 versions. One with original coloring, and one with coloring matching the current Star Wars movies?

I already saw it with the corrective coloring in that special edition they released with the Rifftrax. I wouldn’t mind seeing an attempt at coloring it to look similar to the re-released movies and the prequels.

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It’s really not worth the money or time. The first reaction a random person finding a copy on a shelf is going to be something like “What’s this, isn’t this that one Star Wars thing that was shown only once and never seen again because it was so terrible?”. Or if you want to go full purist, it would something like “Huh? First more female characters and now this? Disney will do anything for a quarter! Fuck this shit, Star Wars is dead!”. But even then we don’t even need an official release anyway since we can simply punch “Star Wars Holiday Special” into Youtube and find full, unedited bootleg copies.

If Lucas won’t let them release the unaltered OT he sure as he’ll won’t let the release the Holiday Special. Heach hates that even more.
The cartoon segment however might be released one day as a bonus feature (properly at least).

I already saw it with the corrective coloring in that special edition they released with the Rifftrax. I wouldn’t mind seeing an attempt at coloring it to look similar to the re-released movies and the prequels.

The YouTube rip RiffTrax released with their commentary is color corrected? By whom? This is news to me.

I didn’t watch it on youtube. I downloaded a iso off pirate bay. It has the original audio or rifftrax audio selectable. It also has commmercials embedded and colors corrected. It was made with the best video source available. Think they said it was a 1st generation VHS.

I didn’t watch it on youtube. I downloaded a iso off pirate bay. It has the original audio or rifftrax audio selectable. It also has commmercials embedded and colors corrected. It was made with the best video source available. Think they said it was a 1st generation VHS.

Oh, this isn’t the version on RiffTrax’s site at all, this is probably version 1 of Zion’s restoration or someone else’s. Depending on whose restoration it is, it could be color corrected to look like anything.

I re-read the original post, you’re asking the eventual official release to be color corrected to look like shit. I get it now.

I can no longer call myself a Star Wars fan. I’m sick of the same played-out aesthetics/tropes being remixed/regurgitated time-&-time again; I’m sick of the deteriorating characterization/worldbuilding which have been in play since 1983; I’m sick of the toxic fanboys from all ideological camps; I’m sick of the capitalist pigs who refuse to allow this IP into the public domain where it rightly belongs. So while I may still admire the first two films for their technical achievements and characters, I’m no longer capable of enjoying Star Wars in any capacity due to the reasons delineated above.